FIFA, for pioneering the idea you can release the same game every year with minor cosmetic tweaks.
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Not one mention of WoW anywhere in this article or this thread, I find that at least somewhat surprising!
Mario Bros.
Literally every gamer has played it or a game like it. Even non gamers recognise it. It's copied and iterated on to this day.
It certainly wasn't the first 2D platformer, but it's success made everyone else go "that's what we're making now"
Seriously. For a lot of people, SMB single-handedly answered the question of whether home consoles or arcades were the future.
Slight correction; you’re referring to Super Mario Bros. (1985).
The plain ol’ Mario Bros. (1983) was the arcade platformer about bunking mobs coming out of pipes:
Many other games have "defined" their genres, but few have done so quite as completely as Doom (1993). And on top of birthing the entire FPS genre, the practice of making Doom run on any electronic device with a screen and a CPU has long been a fantastic exercise in programming and hacking. The possibility of implementing Doom in everything from calculators to pregnancy tests to Captcha in a browser window has kept the game in the public consciousness for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come.
Of course the real answer is Clash of Clans, because it popularized mobile gaming and skyrocketed that platform's revenue to the point that it outpaces every other gaming platform combined, but I'll boycott BAFTA if something riddled with microtransactions gets any recognition
Castle Wolfenstein came out the year before how is that not the first?
If we want to talk about first, then Maze War takes the trophy. Wolfenstein 3D may have come before Doom, but it lacked the influence and staying power. Wolf may have been earlier, but Doom birthed the genre as we know it
It didn't catch on the way Doom did. Maybe it had something to do with the ceiling not having a texture in Wolf3D. 🤷🏻♂️
Half-life. Maybe it didn't innovate specifically anything, but it's the first real maturely designed game, with incredible attention to detail and focused on conveying a cinematic story in fully interactive environments.
And don't get me started on HL2.
All y'all acting as if the answer isn't Candy Crush or some other mobile bullcrap.
Mobile is the biggest platform by far. Mobile games make more money than console and PC combined.
Can't wait for some console/PC gamer to tell me that playing Bloons TD doesn't make you a gamer, but playing Fortnite somehow does
I think naming a single game is hard, but most influencial franchise in gaming would have to be Mario. Between the platformers, smash, kart and the music it is just so widely recognizable.
Eh, Super Mario Bros was super influential, and kicked off the Mario franchise. So I'd probably pick that.
Or maybe Pong, which normalized digital gaming. Or maybe Space Invaders.
I think those are both valid picks. If you can only pick one game it's going to have to be one that changed how the world looked at video games.
I can't see Space Invaders so I'll say that. It was a tour de force when it first came out, raking 13 billion dollars in today's money (citation needed).
Minecraft might be a good contender in terms of spawning the survival genre and also having so many mods used to pioneer entirely new game modes and even having a major part in machinima and Let's Plays and such things on Youtube.
Machinima pre-exists Minecraft by a significant stretch though? Red vs Blue was ongoing when Notch thought of Minecraft.
Oblivion: introduced predatory micro transactions
Sierra was making ganes like kings quest v extremely difficult so you would call their hotline and pay some crazy amount to figure out what to do next.
gacha mechanics have existed before oblivion in many asian mmos
unironically i think this might be it. That horse armor was an ill omen of things to come.
Tetris
Probably Mario
Especially if we consider "influence" beyond influencing other games.
Apart from a few rather mediocre movies and a few orchestras playing the theme tune what did you have in mind there?
Not OP, but Mario is one of the most recognizable characters in the world. He's had comics, 4 cartoon series, countless toys and merchandise, theme park attractions, etc. The original Super Mario was the undeniable standard bearer for the platforming genre and would spawn the largest game franchise in world history, responsible for over 800 million games sold. I'd call it a pretty influential property, staying as strong as ever 40 years after Mario's big starring debut.
And if it was about being the most recognizable I might agree but the influence on other games or even media in general was relatively limited.
Agreed. Super Mario Bros on NES is universally recognizable, kicked off the Mario franchise, and really brought gaming into relative mainstream success.
It's not the best game ever, but that wasn't the question.
Robot Odyssey.
Doom.
People are still making Doom WADs. And have you ever heard of the FPS genre?